News Archive

2017

The electrochemical performance of three different types of membrane-containing electrolyte-flow schemes for solar-driven water splitting has been studied quantitatively using 1-dimensional and 2-dimensional multi-physics models. The Nernstian potential loss associated with pH gradients at the electrode surfaces, the resistive loss between the cathode and anode, the product-gas crossovers, and the required pumping energy in all three schemes have been evaluated as a function of the operational current density, the flow rates for the electrolyte, and the physical dimensions of the devices.

2016

Dr. Gang Cheng, PhD from University of Washington Seattle (2009) joins the Chemical Engineering Faculty as an Associate Professor with tenure. Prior to this appointment at UIC, Dr. Cheng was an Associate Professor and Assistant Professor at the University of Akron. Dr. Cheng was also an adjunct professor of Integrative Medical Sciences at Northeast Ohio Medical University. Dr. Cheng’s group is engaged in multidisciplinary research (polymeric materials, biosensing, microbiology, molecular biology, biochemistry and electrochemistry) centered on zwitterionic polyelectrolytes by exploring the connections between new polymer chemistry/physics and applications. Over the past seven years, Dr. Cheng’s group has made significant contributions to the field of biomaterials by designing and studying novel zwitterionic polyelectrolytes for drug delivery, biosensing and antimicrobial coatings. The…

Dr. Shafigh Mehraeen, PhD from Stanford University (2011) joins the Chemical Engineering Faculty as an Assistant Professor. Prior to this appointment at UIC, Dr. Mehraeen was a postdoctoral fellow at MIT. After two-year postdoctoral career at the Center for Organic Electronics in Georgia Institute of Technology, he received the MIT postdoctoral fellowship and worked in the Chemistry Department at MIT since then. His research has focused on developing new methods to explore dynamics of directed self-assembly of sub-10 nm particles with single particle positioning resolution, predict the role of donor-acceptor interfacial properties on charge generation and energy losses in organic solar cells, and explain the impact of materials disorder on charge transport properties of organic semiconductors. Dr. Mehraeen has authored…

Dr. Meenesh R. Singh joins the Department of Chemical Engineering as an Assistant Professor and will be the director of the Materials and Systems Engineering Lab (MaSEL) at UIC. Prior to his appointment at UIC, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis with a joint affiliation to UC Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Lab.Dr. Singh obtained his B.E degree in chemical engineering from Sardar Patel University in 2005, M.Tech degree in chemical engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Bombay in 2008 and Ph.D is chemical engineering from Purdue University in 2013. His doctoral research at Purdue University was under the guidance of Prof. D. Ramkrishna, where he developed novel computational and experimental tools to study…

Associate Professor Ying Liu was named Recipient of a 2015 UIC Researcher and Scholar of the Year Award by The U.I.C. Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research (OVCR). "These honors recognize and celebrate the efforts and commitment of individuals who are advancing knowledge in their area of research and scholarship. Dr. Liu was one of four UIC early career researchers to receive the Rising Star award.

2015

Assistant Professor Vivek Sharma receives the Distinguished Young Rheologist Award from TA Instruments. This award, which includes an instrument grant is bestowed on a promising young researcher nominated by an international panel of the most established and respected academic researchers from the Society of Rheology.

The Department of Chemical Engineering welcomes Dr. Sangil Kim, who joins the faculty as an Assistant Professor. Prior to his appointment at UIC, he was a staff scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and an adjunct research faculty at the Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh.

Chemical Engineer and South Carolina educator Michael D. Amiridis named UIC Chancellor/Vice President. Before serving as the Executive Vice President for academic affairs and Provost at the University of South Carolina, Amiridis was the Dean of South Carolina’s College of Engineering and Computing from 2006 to 2009, and served as the Chair of the Department of Chemical Engineering from 2002 to 2006. Dr. Amiridis earned his undergraduate degree in chemical engineering from Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki in Greece, and his Ph.D. in chemical engineering from the University of Wisconsin at Madison. His research interests focus on the synthesis and catalytic characterization of bimetallic nanoparticles with controlled composition and architecture. He has won several awards for his academic work including the…

Associate Professor Vikas Berry joins the Department of Chemical Engineering. Berry Research Lab studies the electrical, structural, and chemical properties of innovatively designed nano- and bio- materials to enable the development of the next-generation-applications in biomedicine, electronics and nano mechanics.

ChemE major Raine Fisher, along with a dozen other ChemE majors, participated in the College’s Guaranteed Paid Internship Program the summer following their first year of UIC classes. The program is now in its second year. Read about Raine’s experience here.